Author includes the word(s): Robert Musil

A semi-autobiographical novel set in a military
academy in a desolate corner of the Austro-Hungarian empire, is the
story of the intellectual awakening of an intelligent adolescent, and
contains several... (more)

The hero of this landmark of Modernism is a mathematician. The author,
Austrian Robert Musil, studied mathematics and philosophy in college.
"Life-changing view of how to live. The finest work... (more)

Robert Musil's "The mathematical Man" is an essay, but it is fiction!
Musil uses the foundational crisis of mathematics to draft a new kind
of fiction, modern fiction, later realized in "The Man without
Qualities".... (more)